Job Description

From the start, we’ve made it our mission to break down barriers and create equitable access to great jobs. With our most recent round of funding, we’re expanding our mission to build a platform students love, that helps early talent of all backgrounds receive access to opportunities – no matter who they know or where they go to school. Learn more about Handshake’s $80M Series E funding round .

Handshake is the largest early career network, helping millions of students from all backgrounds get hired and launch their careers with no connections, experience, or luck required. The Handshake community includes 18 million students and young alumni (9 million active students & alumni) from 1,400 educational institutions including four-year colleges, community colleges, boot camps, and 290+ minority-serving institutions. We connect up-and-coming talent across all 50 states with 600,000+ employers recruiting on Handshake - from every Fortune 500 company to thousands of small businesses, nonprofits, startups, and more. Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, New York, and London.

Everyone is welcome at Handshake. We know diverse teams build better products and we are committed to creating an inclusive culture built on a foundation of respect for all individuals. We strongly encourage candidates from non-traditional backgrounds, historically marginalized or underrepresented groups to apply.

If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified, but up for the challenge – we want you to apply. We believe skills are transferable and passion for our mission goes a long way.

Want to learn more about what it's like to work at Handshake? Check out these interviews from our team members!

Your Role

You will be growing and developing your skills as a data engineer. At Handshake our data engineers are responsible for managing a large variety of incoming data, ensuring that everyone at Handshake has the data they need to make decisions and build products. Our program is tailored around your learning and development. Here are some of the projects you might dig into during your internship:

• Building new data pipelines to prepare data for our consumer applications or analytics
• Working with other data engineers to improve our data engineer development experience
• Working with our product team to design data-driven applications
• Scaling out and refactoring existing data systems

You’ll work with these technologies:

• BigQuery, Snowflake
• Airflow
• Spark
• GCP
• Slack, Bugsnag, Datadog, and PagerDuty

Your Experience:

• You have a deep interest in working with complex data.
• You are interested in data science, data warehousing, or real-time data processing.
• You enjoy exploring data and extracting insights.
• Helping others be successful when working with data is important to you.
• You have experience working with databases and advanced SQL.

Benefits:

• Paid Internship: We compensate you for your time.
• Goodies: Hardware and Software provided.
• Team Fun: Regularly scheduled remote team events.
• Great team: Working with driven, fun, and kind people who are committed to making a difference!

We value diversity of all kinds, and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Interested in what Handshake’s San Francisco HQ is like when we’re together? Check out this video:

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